Week 26 — Year of Short Stories 2026

2026 is another year of short stories. In this weekly series, I track my short story writing, from idea and draft to submission. This is the weeks of Jun 29 – Jul 5. Stats Stories Finished: 2 Submissions Currently Out: 5 Submissions Total: 20 Rejections: 17 Acceptances: 0 Submissions and Responses All quiet this week. No new submissions or responses. Goals and Results Last time, my goals were: Revise Beneath the House in Caen to completion, or close to it. Clean up and trim T.I.M., consider whether it needs another round of Critters. As usual, this was optimistic, but I did want to leave the week open to work on either of these stories, depending on what I felt like doing. In the end, it was Beneath the House at Caen that I ended up working on. This was productive revision, trimming about 200 words and cleaning up quite a few small things. My process for dealing with workshop feedback has evolved into roughly three steps. First, I do the initial read-through of all of it, and copy it…